The Data Loss Prevention Engineer is responsible for the daily operation, maintenance, and monitoring of a Data Loss Prevention (DLP) system. The DLP solution may be Endpoint DLP, Network DLP, Discovery, or Cloud DLP. The proper development, care, and administration of the DLP environment is the responsibility of the DLP Engineer, as well as responding to the alerts that the tool generates.

Data Loss Prevention Engineers are continually configuring and enhancing DLP tools, with an understanding of an organization's data and information classifications, intentional and unintentional data loss threats, and process, technologies and services handling critical information. They also support incident response teams in potential breach investigations as well as having knowledge of the relevant data privacy and protection regulations.